“I live in a rather special world,” Miss Kael said, continuing: “I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them.”

It will come as little surprise to anyone who followed the Biden administration’s policy toward Afghanistan which culminated in the botched withdrawal of U.S. forces at the end of August 2021 that handing the country over to the Taliban has not resulted in some vibrant liberalized democracy. Instead, also unsurprisingly, Afghanistan has turned into a hotbed of terrorist activity.

By: Zach Kessel – nationalreview.com – May 14, 2024 Harvard University will begin reinstating student protesters who have been “placed on involuntary leaves of absence” and enter discussions about the school’s endowment as part of an agreement between university administrators and anti-Israel encampment organizers, Harvard’s interim president announced in a letter on Tuesday. “Now that the area is being cleared...

For a host of reasons, all of which I’ve laid out in excruciating detail both on Twitter/X and my past Townhall columns, Donald Trump wasn’t my choice to become the Republican Party’s presidential nominee.

By Ross Douthat – nytimes.com – May 10, 2024 A taxonomy of post-religious conservatisms. You’re reading the Ross Douthat newsletter, for Times subscribers only.  The columnist reflects on culture and politics, but mostly culture. Get it in your inbox. During the 2016 Republican campaign, watching Donald Trump shoulder his way past his more pious rivals for the nomination, I remarked on the...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – May 10, 2024 The average annual inflation rate during his Presidency is 5.5%.Under Trump it was 1.9%. If our friends on the left want to stop berating voters and admit reality, they might look at the chart nearby from Dan Clifton of Strategas Research Partners. It compares the average annual consumer-price inflation rate...

By: Ben Sasse – wsj.com – May 3, 2024 Higher education isn’t daycare. Here are the rules we follow on free speech and public protests. Parents are rightly furious at the asinine entitlement of these activists and the embarrassing timidity of many college administrators. One parent put it bluntly: “Why the hell should anybody spend their money to send their...

By: Stanley Kurtz – nationalreview.com – May 7, 2024 Students stage a walk out from Hillsborough High School to protest after Florida education officials voted to ban classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in all public school grades, in Tampa, Fla., April 21, 2023 When public schools abandon political restraint and impose ideological partisanship on students, it results...

We come from two sides of the political spectrum, write Christopher F. Rufo and Jenin Younes. But both of us agree that the Antisemitism Awareness Act is profoundly misguided.

By: Jess Bravin and Melissa Korn – wsj.com – May 8, 2024 More than a dozen Trump appointees have signed a letter critical of the school’s response to student protests and academic-integrity issues. In a letter this week to Columbia University President Minouche Shafik, 13 jurists led by U.S. Circuit Judges James Ho and Elizabeth Branch said the New York...